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Re: Bush to Compromise on Tax Cut

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From: Eric da Red
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 21:00
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In article <98up87$vue$1@slb5.atl.mindspring.net>,
Roger Fulton <roger@vdsco.com> wrote:
>In article <98ombt$8a2$1@cascadia.drizzle.com>, bergamot@cascadia.drizzle.com (Eric da Red) wrote:
>}I've been looking for more than one year for evidence that I'm
>}underestimating the Shrub.
>}
>}Still looking ...
>
>That's "misunderestimating."
>
>Aren't you up on oh-so-cutesy ShrubSpeak yet?
>
>For Poppy, it was "...at this juncture," closely followed
>by "...million points of light." I wonder what Shrubbie's
>most memorable phrase will be. There are already SO MANY
>to choose from!

So far, his memorable phrases (among the comprehensible ones,
at least) are remarkable only as foils for ridicule:

"compassionate conservative"

"uniter, not a divider"


To be fair, he almost certainly didn't dream up either these nor
other similar platitudes.





-- 
Quote Of The Week:  "Speaking for myself, I don't need a tax cut or tax
relief ... It is a privilege to be an American citizen.  It is appropriate
to pay a greater share of taxes." -- David Geffen
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From: bergamot@cascadia.drizzle.com (Eric da Red)
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Subject: Re: Bush to Compromise on Tax Cut
Date: 19 Mar 2001 13:00:56 -0800
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